Chapter 14: Didn't You Start with a Horse?
This little Deng Zi can be regarded as the guiding figure assigned by the system to Ren Tian's side.
After all, this game has a very high degree of freedom, although the player acts as the king of a country, but after all, many players don't know the situation of ancient history at all, and they don't know what it is like to be an emperor, so they definitely don't know how to start in the early stage, and it will be much better to have a little eunuch who is responsible for guiding at this time.
Ren Tian returned to the palace, after bathing and changing clothes, he also planned to explore his palace first, although he knew some history, but the situation in the palace was still extremely vague, after all, the deep palace compound, it is not so easy to understand.
Then, under the leadership of Xiao Dengzi, Ren Tian began to tour the palace.
"Your Majesty, this is the Imperial Dining Room, a place dedicated to preparing meals for you."
Xiao Dengzi took Ren Tian to the imperial dining room, not far in front, there was a red-pillar and red-painted, quite atmospheric room, with the three words of the imperial dining room hanging on it, and there were many people in it who were busy.
Ren Tian nodded: "Let's go, go in and take a look." ”
In fact, in order to take into account the entertainment, this game does not follow history to a certain extent, in history, the word imperial dining room, or appeared later, for example, in the Spring and Autumn Period, it was called Ku Kitchen, and the Qin Dynasty was called Guanglu Temple, and in the Tang Dynasty, the name became Shang Shi Bureau, and there was also a dining room, which was a place for ministers to prepare food.
And in the game, when the official positions of the central court officials were still Sima Situ Dazai, the official names of the Spring and Autumn Period, there was an imperial dining room in the palace?
However, Ren Tian will not delve into this, because the departments and institutions in the entire palace are actually more troublesome to investigate in detail, for example, the Qing Dynasty was mainly the Ministry of Internal Affairs, while the Ming Dynasty was mainly the Twelve Prisons and Eight Bureaus, and in the game, it was simplified and only the necessary departments were retained.
Again, in fact, Ren Tian's current national level cannot be called me, but it doesn't matter, these are all minor changes.
Ren Tian strode into the imperial dining room, there were dozens of cooks in the imperial dining room, and when they saw Ren Tian, all the cooks knelt down.
"Long live my emperor, long live, long live."
"It's all flat, I'm here to see."
Ren Tian said with a smile.
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
Those imperial chefs stood up cautiously, and Ren Tian's gaze swept over the entire imperial dining room, the size of this imperial dining room, the size of a five-star hotel kitchen, and there were vegetables such as cabbage, mushrooms and other vegetables on the side, in addition, there were pheasants, ducks, and live fish in the water tank on the side.
Many times, the emperor still ate very luxuriously.
"Who made the Eight Immortals yesterday?"
Ren Tian asked.
As soon as these words came out, an imperial chef knelt down in fear: "Back to Your Majesty, it was made by the minister." ”
The surrounding imperial chefs glanced at each other, and even several imperial chefs, all of them had joy in their eyes, could it be that this dish was too unpalatable, which made Long Yan angry?
If Your Majesty drives this man away, there will be a vacancy in the imperial dining room.
The entire imperial dining room also has positions, 2 chiefs, 2 deputy chiefs, 27 people, and more than 100 miscellaneous people, more than 100 people, more than 100 people, and more than 200 people in a royal dining room.
It's just that what I didn't expect was that Ren Tian praised and said: "The taste is very good, and I have a deep memory of eating it." ”
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
"Don't kneel, I didn't let you kneel, don't kneel, get up."
"Yes."
"Which of you is the head of the Imperial Dining Room?"
The trembling imperial chef in front of him said, "It's down." ”
"Very good, the dishes you cooked yesterday were good, can you develop new dishes?"
"Back to Your Majesty, the Imperial Dining Room can develop new dishes, but it's just ......"
"It's just something, but it doesn't hurt to say it."
"It's just that the research of new dishes requires a lot of ingredients, and the procurement of these ingredients requires silver taels."
Does it cost money?
Ren Tian was stunned for a moment, but then asked, "How much do you want to allocate every month?" ”
"100 taels of silver."
100 taels of silver, that's 1 gold.
Basically, his treasury has reached the point of -4.7 per month.
Ren Tian hesitated for a while, but still said, "Yes, I agreed." ”
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
The chief knelt down again: "The imperial dining room will definitely live up to Your Majesty's expectations. ”
"Get up."
After chatting with these chefs for a while, Ren Tian left the imperial dining room, but he felt a little tired, and he really didn't find out, it was really a waste of money.
At the beginning of the early game, there were only 1,000 gold, which was almost 100,000 taels of silver, and as a country, it was still very poor.
It seems that this money cannot be spent indiscriminately.
Ren Tian muttered in his heart, of course, the most important thing is that some of the dishes developed in the imperial dining room can permanently increase his energy ceiling, and the energy ceiling is really useful in the early stage.
"Little Dengzi, can there be a royal horse supervisor?"
Ren Tian asked.
"Your Majesty, this position has not yet been set up in the palace."
Ren Tian asked, "Who is in charge of the horses?" ”
"Back to Your Majesty, our new country has no horses for the time being."
"What?"
Ren Tian was stunned, lying down, not even a horse?
Didn't you start this game?
"Then you're saying that my Praetorian Guard is all infantry?"
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Ren Tian took a deep breath, this start was much worse than he thought.
How important are horses?
In ancient times, horses were important strategic resources, for example, the position of Sima was directly named after horses, military and political affairs could not be separated from horses, transportation could not be separated from horses, and war was inseparable from horses.
Moreover, the ancestors of the Qin Dynasty were given the surname Ying because they could raise horses, and there was the later Qin State.
Throughout ancient China, there was a developed and perfect horse administration, starting from the Western Zhou Dynasty, until the later dynasties, horse politics was the top priority, the Tang Dynasty was the country with 700,000 horses, to the Song Dynasty, why is the Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures so important? In addition to a geographical factor, there is also a reason that the sixteen states of Yanyun are the places of war horses, and the Song Dynasty lacked good war horses, could not build cavalry, could not take the initiative to attack, and was almost completely beaten.
You're telling me now that there weren't even horses at the start, it was all infantry?
Ren Tian's face was a little ugly: "Don't we have a horse in our new country?" ”
"Your Majesty, in the early years during the Gaozu period, there were still 3,000 horses in Xinguo, but later the people's livelihood withered, and horse breeding houses such as Longma and Chenghua were gradually abolished."
Ren Tian felt a big headache, it seems that tomorrow when the government is in power, this matter will be put on the agenda, the country cannot be without horses for a day, horses are too important.